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Biography of Zane GreyName: Zane GreyBirth Date: January 31, 1872 Death Date: October 23, 1939 Place of Birth: Zanesville, Ohio, United States of America Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: writer Zane Grey Ask anyone to name a western writer and chances are the first name to come to mind will be Zane Grey (1872-1939). Considered to be the father of the modern American western novel, Grey was beloved by two generations of readers. His strength as a writer was in his descriptions of the Old West as only he remembered it.During his career as a writer, Zane Grey produced a total of 89 books. These included 56 novels set in the West, one set in the East, three Ohio River-country novels, two novelettes, three collections of short stories, two hunting books, six juvenile books, two books of baseball stories, and eight fishing books. From 1915 to 1924 a Grey book was in the top ten on the best seller list every year except 1916. Riders of the Purple Sage, published in 1912, is considered by most readers of Western novels as the best of its kind and also …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…who have little understanding of the Indians they are trying to convert.In later years the Greys bought a large estate in Altadena, California, a house on Catalina Island, a ranch in Riverside county, a hunting lodge and ranch on the rim of the Tonto, in Arizona; and a fishing lodge at Wihnckle Bar, Oregon. Grey was at his Altadena estate when he died of a heart attack on October 23, l939, as he practiced casting his fishing line from a rod installed on his front porch. Further Reading American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, Oxford University Press, 1999.Contemporary Authors Online, Gale Group, l999.Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale Group, 1981.Gruber, Frank, Zane Grey, World Publishing Company, 1970.Jackson, Carlton, Zane Grey, Twain Publishers, 1989.Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd ed., edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, l994.Western American Literature, Vol. X111, No. 1, Spring, 1978. |